Brüer is a semi-abstract painter, born in Gorleston he was brought up as a friend of fellow artist Colin Self. He studied at Great Yarmouth College of Art (1957-61) and the Royal College of Art (1961-4) and worked as a lecturer at Lowestoft School of Art before painting full-time from 1984. He has gained a string of prizes including First Prize – East Anglian Artists Open, 1986 and First Prize – Drawings for All, 2000. His subects cover figures, clowns, night shelter residents, beautiful women, brutal soldiers as well as longtime frineds and family. He has exhibited extensively with the Royal Academy, Switzerland and Finland. He was Artist in Residence for the Hippodrome Circus, GreatYarmouth.Works are held at Imperial College of Science, London,The University of Essex, Norwich Castle Museum and The Rijkers art collection.

Brüer Tidman is truly a Master of his Art. He paints serious, important, meaningful and considered works and is in every sense a truly contemporary artist.